Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Department of Education Hispanic serving institution (HSI) designation in 2016; received the Seal of Excelencia certification in 2021; created the Mays Center for Experiential Learning and Community Engagement; developed the Engineering Technology/Cyber Security Research Center; and established the Institute for Autism and Related Disorders.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

CPE’s 2024 Higher Education Matters Progress Report shows the graduation rate for URM in the Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS) increased 15 percentage points from the 2016-17 academic year to the 2022-23 academic year. Employers, he says, are making it clear that they believe in diversity, equity, and inclusion. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Pierre, a seasoned legal scholar, had been serving the Southern University Law Center in numerous roles since 1990, first as a faculty member and then as an administrator. In 2016, he was tapped to lead the school’s law center, which was founded at the historically Black university (an HBCU) in 1947.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Title: Assistant Vice President for Diversity, Access and Inclusion; Associate to the President, University of Nebraska Jenkins has served as the University of Nebraska’s associate to the president and assistant vice president for diversity, access and inclusion since August of 2016.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2024

SEATTLE-- Prominent student affairs practitioners of color shared powerful stories of leading in higher education amid major challenges, including the recent COVID pandemic and ongoing attacks to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

“Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

In terms of retention, Carter says hiring supportive faculty is a huge component. “We Webster University The mission of Webster University, a private institution in Missouri, prioritizes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Because we focus on that demographic, we have built that in as part of our mission,” says Carter.

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Symplicity

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In fact, in a 2016 study by the Institute of Education Sciences , only 13 percent of students with a disability disclosed. With this concern, as Higher Education Today wrote in 2020 means that “shaping the culture of higher education institutions is one of the most important steps to achieving the goal of disability-diversity and inclusion.”

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The LTC Blog

MARCH 31, 2017

The Carleton TRIO/SSS staff have put together some great resources for faculty about how to acknowledge class in the classroom and helping students become self-regulated learners. I enjoy getting to know the TRIO students, and I continue to be impressed by the staff and the work that they do.

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Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

2011; Meyer, 2015) Human rights protections and equitable legal recognition / protections for identity representation and full inclusion; and, Cultural identity, connection to language & land within Indigenous communities (Kirmayer et al., These community resilience factors include: Community connection and support (Wexler et al.,

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 1, 2024

These include guest speaker sessions, faculty development programs, and student job fairs that are often overlooked in traditional initiative audits. For example, they might ask, “Does being taught by a faculty member who completed 1+ training series in the prior term impact persistence?”

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EAB

MAY 25, 2023

Louis Slimak , Associate Provost for Curriculum and Assessment at West Virginia University (WVU), has done extensive work to overhaul the WVU’s program review process—and its culture around data more broadly—since his arrival in 2016. We’re also standing up a dedicated Edify dashboard for our faculty hiring process.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 11, 2024

Northwest’s student success model relies on collaboration between faculty, advisors, and student support units, such as diversity and inclusion, the registrar’s office, and the athletics department. Often, advisors, faculty, and student success team members only see a portion of a student’s profile. Read the Blog 3.

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Clair Kamp Dush

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

On Tuesday, in my first-year graduate proseminar , we had a session on implicit bias, micro-aggressions, and micro-resistance, and ironically, 2016 was the first year that I have included this session. I said to a male student, “you like sports, right?”. I did not learn how to pronounce my Chinese student’s name correctly.

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EAB

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Particular areas of focus for Art include: student access, diversity, inclusion, expression, and success; faculty diversity, inclusion, and expression; and institutional accountability and accreditation. Those very interests put forward by Harvard and UNC were rejected by the Court in the SFFA decision.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

College administrators and faculty have to be much more aggressive in reclaiming the importance of a liberal education, particularly in the wake of sweeping legislative efforts in some states to restrict academic freedom and to outlaw the teaching of some subjects. We need to start controlling the narrative.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2024

A long-time collaborator of Brown’s — in 2016 they co-authored the book Whiteness Is the New South Africa: Qualitative Research on Post-Apartheid Racism — they recently began conversations about a related project. The research of many HBCU scholars is fueled by aspects of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB), says Bonner.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Black and brown female consciousness, inclusive of scholars such as Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherrie Moraga, is central to our richer understanding of American pluralism and the common good.” Newson-Horst is a Spelman graduate who was impacted by Guy-Sheftall and other Spelman faculty who inspired her to take on similar challenges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Aaron Goodson “It’s really important that we see Black women in this position of leadership as head coaches in our sport,” says Smith, who is co-chair of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee. “In In my tournament, you’re always going to see four Black females leading their teams.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

To this end, we provide P-12 educators; college/university faculty, administrators, and staff; and other education stakeholders a blueprint to collaboratively work with Black males through a culturally responsive lens. We acknowledge that more work needs to be done to right the many wrongs imposed on Black males.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 24, 2023

President Milliron explained how this approach has already made a difference at National: "Our board has adopted a focus on how everything we do is around championing student success, building trust, advancing inclusion, embracing accountability -- and I love our last one, which is 'make things better.'

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2024

From 2016 to 2022, the number of applicants from this demographic nearly doubled, yet acceptance rates remained low, highlighting a critical need for additional support. In addition to benefiting UCLA students directly, Yoo sees the program as part of a broader effort towards “inclusive excellence” across the University of California system.

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